Scott Harris is filleting his former firm, Fish & Richardson. The IP lawyer, who was asked to resign from Fish last month after some of his own patents supposedly came into conflict with firm clients, has filed a counterclaim in the firm’s suit against him in a federal court in Chicago.
He’s accusing the firm of defamation and saying most of the things he told Callaw, including that he didn’t do his own patents on firm time. Other Fish partners, he contends, did spend a lot of time on side projects while working at Fish.
“Mr. Harris is aware of numerous examples, including that of Mr. [John] Phillips, the Managing Partner of the San Diego office, who is co-owner of MercExchange. Other examples include:
- (1) Steve Stodgill, an attorney in the Dallas office who purportedly has a number of outside business deals, some with noted entrepreneur Mark Cuban;
- (2) John Schnurer, an attorney in the San Diego office, who purportedly crafted, and personally benefited from, several non-firm real estate deals; and
- (3) Charles Heiken, an attorney with significant business relationships with Bose corporation.”
Makes you wonder how they bill any hours over there. Here’s the funny thing: Harris actually says in his counterclaim that Fish lawyers don’t bill that much. According to the counterclaim, Harris “routinely billed 1,900 to 2,000 hours per year. In a firm where many attorneys did not meet their billing goals, this often placed Mr. Harris in the top 25% highest billers at Fish.”
Legal Pad wishes Harris would detail why his former colleagues are missing their targets. But we suppose he’s got bigger Fish to fry.
— Zusha Elinson
Chuck Heiken works for Fish & Richardson? You could have fooled me. . . he's virtually resident at Bose, and [deleted].
Posted by: Jim McMartin | November 02, 2007 at 09:03 AM
It's too bad that partners split up in such an ugly fashion. Nice puns by the way, they easily made the article.
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